Ruth Westheimer Quotes

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Ruth Westheimer

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : June 4, 1928

I don't let people call me before 9 A.M.

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I got the Margaret Sanger award. I was kissed by President Obama.

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Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.

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I was already 50 when I started in television.

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I don't talk around issues.

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I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

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Many years ago, I went with my husband and daughter to Denmark. In those years, you could bring $400 worth of furniture without taxes. We had three people, we bought $1,200 worth of furniture.

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I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

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I'm a super good shot.

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I read the horoscope, and when I like it I smile and when I don't like it, I say, 'Dr. Ruth Westheimer, what's the matter with you?'

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I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

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I have nothing against the Internet meeting places, as long as people use them intelligently.

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I don't have scientifically validated data, but once two people have found each other and found interest in each other, my hypothesis would be that the relationship has a good chance of being successful.

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I don't know how to play Canasta.

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I was one of the first ones to participate in fundraisers for AIDS.

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I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

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I tell people with children still in the house to go out once a week and talk about anything but the children. Otherwise, once you are an empty nester you might have nothing to talk about.

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I have the habit of always saying thank you to police and guards who watch us.

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I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan at the age of 12, to be caressed and to be kissed and to know that there is someone who really deeply cared about me.

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Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.

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